First of all, Fuseism is not something you would call bad-ass music – the Budapest 5-piece is the musical equivalent of a shy and smart good-willing guy from the neighbourhood. Still, Fuseism has a lot to give not only to this kind of people – their music is basically for anybody who’s into indie, punk, shoegaze and catchy melodies. Yeah, the nerdy music fans, you might say but hey, what’s wrong with that..?! Nerdy people have a lot of soul, intellect and they are not afraid to say they care…

Fuseism has released a Demo tape and four short EPs so far (if you haven’t got it yet, save each of them on your hard disk – Downloading is freedom, you know) with their trademark guitar sound, thick bass licks and the unique chanting vocals about despair, pathfinding and self-reflection.

By the way, have you ever heard their semi-ironic song about video games being better than drugs?? I tell you it is worth checking whatever these guys release – and luckily enough they finally released a longer 6-track (with the two instrumental Ultrablast snippets it’s in fact 4 songs) EP yesterday titled Search and seek more.

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To do a spoiler, the new songs bring no novelty in terms of style but this style is absolutely theirs and it’s impossible to mistake these guys for something else. 90s and surf punk influenced noisy/dreamy shoegaze sound, energy, hints of dissonance but overall melodic harmony. And one day at a point of mediating with your own self,  you will find yourself mumbling these lines along with the vocalist Rádi who’s the guy responsible for the verbal delivery. Hey, you could do that at any of their shows, I bet you wouldn’t regret it as they are one of Hungary’s best live bands.

For me, the most amazing track on the EP is Comfort and conquer – it is like an early 90s noise rock piece fuelled with more intensity and more melody. It clearly has one of the best guitar tunes ever, it’s gonna give you the chills for sure.

Support the band by going to their shows or spreading the word about them, it’s time to be a believer of Fuseism!

Here is an amazing discovery from the Hungarian music scene!

Médeia fiai is hailing from Szeged and they play a very unique mixture of  psychedelia, blues and dark folk.Their latest release Dear Chaos is a compilation of different live recordings and if you dig late autumn evening walks and some haunting thoughts are troubling your soul, here’s something you can deeply dig yourself into.

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It’s been more than a year since their last 2-song EP but the waiting is over now – stay tuned until 15th November when the new Fuseism EP is to be released by Go Away Records with 4+2 brand new tracks – Hungarian nerdy noise rock, dark indie punk and that certain guitar sound!

So, here are three short previews from the upcoming EP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpGqWAuV2Ig

click on the pic to listen to this special hangover mixtape I did for 444.hu

lots of noise and reverberation for your perfect Sunday hangover with some healing words for those who are still able to read in such a shitty condition

Na EZÉRT! Mert ha feloszlik egy király magyar zenekar, akkor utólag lehet pityeregni, de tessék inkább kebletekre ölelni azt, akit még lehet – meg persze a Románia zenekar tagjait is, mert egyáltalán nem haltak meg, csak úgy döntöttek, hogy a csúcson hagyják abba. Na, de miért kell? Mert sokan nem tudják mikor kell feloszlani – és a Románia most azt mondja, inkább előbb, mint később. Most már szeretitek őket, mi?? Pedig biztosan kevesen voltak ott, amikor Csank Laci (eredetileg jolanás énekes) és Fekete Dávid  (dobverés) akaratuk ellenére kitalálták az elmúlt évek legmentálisabb magyar  zenekarát – ahogy azt kell, kevés ambíció, sok sör. A Myspace-csúcskorának gyermekei közül páran biztosan emlékeznek a sörös üveg burogatásra, meg az első látásra sem épp sejtelmes névre (Románia a.k.a. Bundesliga Superdeath) amik az első demókon emelték a mocskos gyönyört – csodálatosan vandál csürhe. Vagy valamivel később, amikor ezt írtam: ‘Dávid, a dobos nagyon elvetemülten küldte és az egésznek olyan gyönyörű vége volt, hogy a gitáros-énekes srác be lett hajítva a dobok közé – na, ilyenkor úgy érzem, hogy ez a szobazene szart sem ér az ilyenekhez képest.’ Még egy kicsivel később Kele Gabi is csatlakozott a Lömbihead zenekarból és innentől lendült be igazán a négyesfogat, Peti, Dávid, Laci és Gabi, ekkor már szerintem kétszer olyan gyorsan játszották a számaikat, mint eredetileg. És ha egy videóban kéne összefoglalni a zenekar munkásságát, azt valószínűleg szándékosan sem lehetne jobban, mint a tavalyi Lömbihead búcsúturné során felvett legdurvább videóval:

A lényeg, hogy most sikerült az utolsó pillanatban elcsípni őket egy kis csevejre és most megtudhatjátok a válaszokat a legfontosabb kérdéseitekre, amire az országos médiában nem kérdeztek rá!

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here’s the first video of Tumo, a band from the members of the late-but-beloved Lömbihead!

Megint jönnek  means ‘they are coming again’ and the song is a slight shift  from the kind of mental punk, for which they used to be either adored or hated by the punk audience.

this new Tumo track is more influenced by moody noise rock and it’s right off from their first demo, give it a listen at the bandcamp site or at one of their raging gigs if you’re around

so, everyone cheer up, Sebő and Kele, the duo of notorious cult fame is back!

One thing I knew before getting acquainted with the music of Hunx & his Punx is that punk can handle any sort of weirdness basically, the more, the better. But I remember how I couldn’t really tell if it’s love or hate when it comes to Seth Bogart and his style –  is gay punk just a stupid joke? Or is it something that new bands are really lacking maybe? Since the irresistible  pop tunes of Hunx & his Punx took the control out of my hands, I don’t really care if it’s trashy and sometimes disgusting – as long as it’s fun and my parents would definitely hate it (oh and one more thing, I just love Shannon Shaw who’s also a lead figure in the band)

Here’s their new album, titled Street Punk, a twisted attempt, you might think and you are right. I’ve heard it somewhere that if you want to make an album as quick as possible, you should turn to street punk – so, whenever I hear the album title, I smell a big deal of irony – needless to say, even though the new songs have a more overdriven sound (especially the opening track Bad Skin),  it’s really far from street punk. But would you miss the soundtrack of supermasculine agression when you can have super-witty ill-behaved fun garage songs instead??

If you like to giggle, here’s a new video with 3 Hunx tracks and hilariously careful narration – the album is available from Hardly Art Records, one of my favorite labels these days!

You might not be familiar with too many things coming from Serbia (and let’s focus on the good things, right?) but there’s one man who seems to be everywhere, or at least where the good things are happening in Serbia. So, meet Filip Cetkovic who has an endless list of bands, runs a trve club called MKC Kombinat and is an expert in trash films, obscure music and graphic arts. Trve, right?

Bag of dicks exploded at the end of last year with their over-distorted minimalist interpretation of garage punk. The duo is at least three times louder than any two-piece on this planet and you can easily check this statement if you come to their autumn show brought to you by RNR666. Filip’s yelling vocals, bass progressions from the desert, trash movie cruelty, a kick-ass EP – and I must say once again, it’s done really really loud.

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┼ chresus jist ┼ is Filip’s most recent band with slightly more sophisticated sounds but it’s still pure punk (two girls run the rhythm section, by the way but  honestly I could not really tell this while listening) and it’s still pretty noisy. Apart from the sick name – of which I remember laughing my ass off when I first heard, anyway – it’s not a primitive endeavor with its indie rock and surf reminiscences and hell, this EP sounds totally right – it’s unfortunately something we are not quite used to from Eastern European bands.

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Go for your free downloads at the bandcamp sites and seek your opportunities to catch these bands at a show!

I’m having this pretty weird vision in my head while I’m trying to grab the essence of Shannon and the Clams– I’m seeing a heartbroken John Waters trying to be a good girl, I’m seeing the sweetest pop music turning into a psycho-killer lollipop from too much overdrive and most of all I’m seeing lots of eccentric fucked-upness. Just look at these crazy Californian guys and you would probably know more of this band than any shitty record reviews could ever tell – the harshest of good old pin-up style, some weird uniforms, lots of gayness and colors everywhere, so obviously all of these (alongside with the catchy melodies) are about FUN and the result is fully pleasing.

Still, Shannon and the Clams are by no means a scam band with only one cheaply over-hyped debut album – Dreams in the Rat House is already their third full-length release while Shannon is also involved in Hunx and his Punks (another brilliantly gay band) and Cody is simply King Lollipop –  I honestly think they’re just getting better and better in their songwriting skills. If I was a bitch, I would even be envious of them, haha.

All in all, this LP is a perfect pick for the summer for any record junkies who enjoy surf pop with an almost sickening overdose of a hundred different bubblegum flavors, or who appreciate some troubled, nastier allusions meanwhile, or who are still fond of the garage ideal (i. e. exploding band dynamics plus infectious energies) or who are really fed up with bands trying to make an intellectual / arty impression. 

Dreams in the Rat House is out now on Hardly Art Records – sorry for demonstrating the album here so poorly but I’m afraid the label is a lot eager to make you listen to the vinyl and they are probably right!

Or you can catch Shannon and the Clams on tour in France and Belgium this July!

Good girls love bad guys forever! Two of the most bad-ass Hungarian bands gave a thrilling show this May in a small venue and I must say you are most unlucky if you didn’t attend.

So, here’s a little souvenir from that dark and raging night, proving that Hungary knows how to recycle everyday frustration and that certain roaring coming from a male human’s crotch.

Aren’t these the two essential ingredients for bad music?

Broken Cups is well-known for their maniac live shows and evil post punk sound – but with a frontman so eager to surprise the audience, you just never know what to expect from him. Those guys sitting with an astonished expression probably haven’t been to a gig where they had to face that aforesaid crotch at point-blank range (1.10)

derTanz is probably the best live band in Hungary now. What they do on stage today is the result of playing together for a damn long time, which clearly shows. Hypnotic improvisations and killer songs – well, no one really knows what Gábor is talking about during a gig but more or less everyone is shit scared. Or look at Broken Cups’ frontman, Dávid in this vid, totally frenzied from Statue, the opening track from the first derTanz LP, Kaktusz

The guys from the two bands couldn’t really stop making noise after the gigs, so they teamed up for a little jamming…sounds squishy? not at all

It is impossible to say (not only smart things but) anything when you get such sad news – Filip Topol from Czechia, probably the greatest singer-songwriter from the Eastern bloc and probably the only man to play heartbreaking punk on a piano died today, not so suddenly.

May he rest in peace.

http://youtu.be/KYqD2E2ZJPc

These guys from Cheshire, CT seem to believe in reaching enlightenment in a crappy basement and hell, they are right. The Atomic Buddha simply picks rough RNR licks, psyched out vocals and the shittiest sound of punk, who knows, maybe they got sick of today’s garage rock bands getting an accessibly clean sound by now and what’s originally meant to be raw and loud has become sheer pop music, some easy listening for the hip crowds? Or they just don’t give a shit what goes around in the world as long as drums pound, guitars grunt and the rage is on…

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Blottered is loaded with quite powerful tunes, which might be challenging to notice at first but this trip is definitely worth taking, Fading fast for example has an infectious riff and even some screaming organs, just as if The 13th Floor Elevators were kidnapped, thrown into a basement, then offered some glue. Love the idea? Grab your copy of the limited CD release from 75orLess Records hoping that their next sonic boom will be a tape or what’s even better, a sexy vinyl!